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Call for a good time

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transfundere

It's hardly a stance. Why else would it be there, if it wasn't it's home? Is it a visiting tiger? Do you have those in the future?

From:

everythinglost

Depends on what planet you're on. Or how far in the future.

From:

transfundere

So which planets have visiting tigers? I'd really like to know for no particular reason which might make one believe I have a stance.

From:

everythinglost

Hitchemus, for one. And I think there's this whole thing with intelligent animals on Earth in the 26th century. Maybe the 27th.

From:

transfundere

And where is that, exactly? Hitchemus, I mean.

Earth I'm familiar with.

From:

everythinglost

No idea. Chara was its sun, which I'd also never heard of and probably couldn't point to on a space map.

Nice place, unfortunate number of tigers.

From:

transfundere

So is it the density of tigers that causes all the visiting?

From:

everythinglost

Exactly. You couldn't walk into a library without having to step over a tiger. Which was fine until they started killing people.

From:

transfundere

Which has me wondering what the tigers were doing before that.

From:

everythinglost

It's actually sort of interesting. They had this cycle of 'intelligence' where one generation was smart and the next stupid and there was this whole political thing. But I almost died so I decided not care about that.

From:

transfundere

Was there some means of transference or-

I can't even imagine how that would work. [ A sigh. ]

Almost died?

From:

everythinglost

I can't say I got passing marks in biology, and that was on Earth. There's someone out there who has some idea about how this stuff works, but it's definitely not me.

Have you ever been chased by a tiger? Not for those without a second set of trousers. Luckily, she hated humans too much to learn what 'warning: electricity' means. A moral about prejudice. Though in case you get the wrong impression, it's important to be clear that I had no idea about that at the time. On her death bed my old mum admitted that she'd dropped me on my head quite a bit as a child, and evidence continues to mount up.

Edited Date: 2023-03-28 02:01 am (UTC)

From:

transfundere

[ There is a lot there. Quite a lot. He'll focus on the tiger; that seems safest. ]

So did you fall into a tiger pit? Are those electrified in that time?

From:

everythinglost

No, I ran into a power station. Ladders, you know. I wish there had been a tiger pit.

From:

transfundere

For the tiger to be in?

For her to fall into and perhaps be distracted by another tiger?

From:

everythinglost

Exactly, now you're getting it.

From:

transfundere

And it only took about fifteen minutes. How encouraging.

From:

everythinglost

Sometimes it takes hours. [Despite going for sarcasm, there's still a trace of something that might be nostalgia. He's spent a lot of good hours talking in circles around nothing.]